Saturday, 7 December 2002

Love is the Best Doctor, Dec 7, 2002

What: Love is the Best Doctor by Moliere
Rogue Theatre

Where: Chapel off Chapel 12A Little
Chapel St Prahran

When: Wed to Sun at 9pm until 22
December

Reviewer: Kate Herbert

There's no denying it. 18th
Century French playwright, Moliere, was a super satirist. He to the style of
the Commedia del'Arte - the Italian clowns- and turned it into a biting attack
on the upper classes.

Despite his
acerbic wit, he was the darling of the aristocracy and of Louis XIV, the Sun
King.

Love is the
Best Doctor is a flimsy and funny piece of fluff that Moliere wrote and staged in
five days for the King.

Moliere
wrote that it was best seen with "the music of the incomparable Monsieur
Lully , the fine singing and the skill of the dancers…"

Director,
Alison Wall, hurls herself bodily at Moliere's own mode of using contemporary
references. It is a comic success.